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respective fields should be preserved and their 

 growth fostered, as agencies for the investigation 

 of local questions ana of the more individual sci- 

 entific problems. The federal agency, on the other 

 hand, should cultivate the almost limitless field 

 offered by questions having national or interstate 

 relations and by those broad scientific problems 

 requiring heavy expenditures, elaborate equipment, 

 long continued study and the correlation of the 

 results of many investigators, which efforts are 

 usually beyond the means of an individual station. 

 On many questions the harmonious cooperation 

 of the two agencies is essential to the highest 

 efficiency of efi'ort. 



6. Any research agency charged with a single 

 main line of investigation should be so organized 

 that it may employ within itself all necessary 

 processes in any branch of science. The coopera- 

 tion of any or all the departmnets of an experi- 

 ment station on a single problem, when necessary, 

 should be a fundamental requirement. 



7. Research work, both national and state, 

 should be provided for by separate, lump-sum 

 appropriations, to be distributed according to the 

 discretion of the responsible executive head of each 

 agency. 



8. Investigation into the business, economic, so- 

 cial and governmental conditions affecting agricul- 

 ture should be undertaken and should be main- 

 tained on a permanent and effective basis. 



9. An advisory board is suggested consisting of 

 members appointed by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture and by the Association of American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations, respect- 

 ively, which shall confer with the Secretary of 

 Agriculture regarding the mutual interests of the 

 department and the stations and shall consider 

 the promotion of agricultural investigation in 

 general. 



TEE RHODES SGH0LARSEIP8 

 The number of scholars in residence at Ox- 

 ford under the Rhodes bequest during the 

 academic year 1907-8 was 156. Sixty-six 

 were from colonies of the empire, 11 from 

 Germany and 79 from the United States of 

 America. In addition to these, 11 men whose 

 scholarship term had expired continued to 

 reside in the university for a whole or part of 

 the year; 1 as an official fellow, 2 as lecturers, 

 1 as a Senior Demy of Magdalen and 6 for 

 further study in various subjects. At the end 

 of the simamer term 54 scholars completed 



their course at the university and took their 

 examinations. At the beginning of the October 

 term 1908 there was an entry of 78 new schol- 

 ars, while 3 other scholars (colonial) who had 

 temporary leave of absence returned to com- 

 plete their course. The whole number of 

 scholars in residence for the academic year 

 1908-9 is therefore 178. These are distri- 

 buted as follows among the colleges: 15 at 

 Balliol, 14 at Christ Church, 13 each at Exeter 

 and Queens, 12 at St. John's, 11 each at Hert- 

 ford, New College and "Worcester, 10 each at 

 Merton and Wadham, 9 at Oriel, 8 each at 

 Lincoln and Pembroke, Y each at Brasenose, 

 Trinity and University, 6 at Magdalen, 4 at 

 Jesus and 2 at Corpus. There are, in addi- 

 tion, 11 ex-scholars in residence for the Oc- 

 tober term, engaged either in teaching, re- 

 search or special study for examination. The 

 total so reached of 189 is the highest point in 

 numbers hitherto attained. The work of the 

 scholars now in residence is distributed as 

 follows over the different courses of study 

 organized in the university: Literse Humani- 

 ores, 20; natural science (geology, chemistry, 

 physiology and physics), 18; jurisprudence, 

 38; history, 20; mathematics, 4; theology, 9; 

 English literature, 7; oriental languages, 1; 

 modem languages, 4; Honor Moderations — 

 classical, 3. 



TBE DABWIN CENTENARY 

 In addition to the exercises in New York, 

 Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere in honor 

 of the hundredth anniversary of Darwin's 

 birth, which have already been noted in Sci- 

 ence, memorial exercises were arranged by 

 several other institutions. 



At Cornell University the event was com- 

 memorated by two lectures by Professor J. H. 

 Comstock on " The Basis of the Theory of 

 Evolution," a lecture on " The Eelation of 

 Darwinism to the Modem Theories of Evolu- 

 tion," by Professor Herbert J. Weber, and an 

 address by President Schurman on " Darwin- 

 ism and Modern Thought." 



At a special meeting of the Scientific As- 

 sociation of the University of Missouri, held 

 on February 12, in commemoration of the 



